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Digital Image: 1700 / 1726 Wells Double Hemisphere Map of the World
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Title
A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans.
1700 (undated) 14.5 x 20 in (36.83 x 50.8 cm) 1 : 50000000
1700 (undated) 14.5 x 20 in (36.83 x 50.8 cm) 1 : 50000000
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Cartographer S
Edward Wells (1667 - 1727) was an English mathematician, geographer, and classical scholar based at Christ Church College, Oxford. Wells trained for the ministry but quickly found himself unsuited to religious life and instead applied for an academic position at Oxford, where he authored numerous well respected works on a wide range of mathematical and scientific topics. He tutored Prince William, the sickly son of Queen Anne, who was likely about 11 at the time this map was prepared. Wells dedicated nearly all of the maps in his atlas, A New Sett of Maps both of Ancient and Present Geography, to the young prince - quite possibly posthumously, as William died in July of 1700 shortly prior to the publication of the atlas. Nonetheless, Wells' geography proved popular and was published in number editions well into the 1730s. More by this mapmaker...
Michael Burghers (1647? - 1727) was an Amsterdam-born English engraver active in Oxford, regarded by contemporaries as 'the best general engraver in England.' He produced plates for Robert Plot, Edmund Gibson, and in particular a number of maps for Edmund Wells' A new sett of maps... among other works. He was baptized a Lutheran in Amsterdam in 1648, but by 1673 had established himself in Oxford. He was naturalized in 1685 and became official engraver for Oxford University in 1694. Learn More...
Source
Wells, E., A New Sett of Maps, 1700, (London: Bowyer) 1726.
References
OCLC 60357710. Rumsey 11181.004. Shirley, Rodney W., The Mapping of the World: Early Printed World Maps 1472-1700, 608.